This film has just won lots of Oscars, which is surely only further proof that they are a complete waste of time, and lack any critical faculties whatsoever.
The King’s Speech is the biggest load of tosh I have ever had the misfortune to endure, in fact I deserve an Oscar for managing to sit through this guff for the duration.
The dialogue in this film is totally unbelievable and I can only assume that the diaries on which they are based were very sparsely written, eg: “Met the king today for a session, went well…” From that the writers have managed to extricate imagined dialogue of the most incredulous kind. This film is a pantomime, it airbrushes over history. Michael Gambon plays George V like a kindly old Freud / Father Christmas character, hardly the autistic, cruel and remote character he was.
The whole premise of this film is nothing more than the worst Royalist propaganda. The sub-plot being: Thank your lucky stars that you got this branch of Royals as rulers, rather than the vain Nazi Edward and his lot. Lets not forget George V was the first monarch to actually speak English, and his cousin Albert ran German prisoner of war camps in the first World War.
I didn’t buy one word of this film, the acting was hammy, especially from the old stalwarts like Gambon and Jacobi. Geoffrey Rush probably put in the best performance, but compared to the rest that’s not saying much.
This film was the worst kind of revisionist propaganda that I have seen in a long time. Made for the sycophantic royalist and American market, if a word of dialogue was true I’ll eat my hat. Historically the royals are a murderous and cruel bunch, their cruelty knows no bounds and is even extended to members of their own family. I see no evidence that this has changed in recent decades, they are not kindly socially conscious people. They are royals who will kill their own to consolidate their power.
If you go and see this film keep your tongue planted firmly in your cheek!
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